What’s In Your (Junk) Drawers?
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How many of us keep that "junk drawer" full of scripts that seem like they could be useful. Just collect a ton of scripts and maybe you will use it and maybe not.
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I hear that! I have a handfull of scripts that I use every day, and folder upon folders of 'one day I'll sit down and sort thorugh this' scripts 🙂
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I even found some UAT (user acceptance test) sign-off's (wet signature on paper!) which were soooo important to collect. After the project nobody dared to file them properly and they rot in my drawer. 😀
Otherwise, I try to keep my drawer's clean.
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Junk drawers are useful so that you can utter 'Ah, that's where it is...'.
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I have no junk drawer. . . no, seriously.
I do have "junk scripts" on a file server though, loads of them that may or may not be useful 🙂
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I have a small junk drawer with pens, pencils (why so many??? :-P) keys, business cards, paracetamol, staples etc. and I have a big junk drawer with bigger stuff like spare (old) mouses, empty mouse boxes (huh?), multiple utp-cables, a hat (wtf...), a small ball which was thrown at me years ago (hahahha). And I even have a junk drawer from the former owner of my desk. 😛
Oh man... I have to clean up a bit, this is so evil!
Yup I also have a ton of unused scripts. October will be a good month for collecting garbage. :hehe:
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Jon-413357 (9/29/2011)
I have a small junk drawer with pens, pencils (why so many??? :-P) keys, business cards, paracetamol, staples etc. and I have a big junk drawer with bigger stuff like spare (old) mouses, empty mouse boxes (huh?), multiple utp-cables, a hat (wtf...), a small ball which was thrown at me years ago (hahahha).ha, ha, that's funny! Well, I have some power adapters and mouses as well but I regard them as valuable items 😉
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It's not a Junk drawer, its a man drawer.
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When one colleague left we found, along with the usual selection of pens and stuff, some crackers and a range of individually wrapped cheese portions.
Unfortunately it took us a while to find them...:sick:
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I do have a drawer at work for odd and ends, but I wouldn't call it a junk drawer. All my junk is on my desk. A cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind; an empty desk.......
There is something satisfying, though, when someone is in a fix and needing an obscure or arcane item, to be able to rummage around your desk or drawer, find something that'll fit the bill and thus become the object of relieved gratitude. Are those rare moments worth the hassle of acting like a magpie for the rest of the time? No idea, but I do anyway.
For the record, though, the drawers in my pedestal contain the following unexpected items:
- Ink cartridges and blotting paper - I do have a fountain pen, but it's been years since I last used it.
- A bottle of shampoo
- Two spare ties
- Half a bottle of soy sauce
- A spray tin of Ralgex
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Junk drawer? Lightweight. My entire back bedroom in my house is my junk room where I throw anything I don't know what to do with... 😀
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My junk drawer has a slew of plastic shopping bags that I tossed in there after bringing something to the office. Why do I keep those?
But the biggest item I have is one of those neck cushions with batteries to massage the tension away. It was an office Christmas gift from a team member.
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Haven't used it in years!
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The last couple of people to sit at the desk I'm using left quite suddenly so there were a lot of thing that accumulated. I keep batteries in there as well as those after meal candies that I get at restaurants but don't usually eat. In the various drawers and compartments of my desk you'd find:
SQL Server 2008 R2 and Visual Studio 2010 DVDs
Staplers
Phone and ethernet cables
Empty file folders (they used to be full, but during a blackout I brought all their contents to the shredder box after the boss looked them over)
Empty binders (contents also shredded)
Blank timesheets from the era when people recorded time on paper to get paid
A branded winter coat, still wrapped in plastic
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majorbloodnock (9/29/2011)
For the record, though, the drawers in my pedestal contain the following unexpected items:
- Ink cartridges and blotting paper - I do have a fountain pen, but it's been years since I last used it.
- A bottle of shampoo
- Two spare ties
- Half a bottle of soy sauce
- A spray tin of Ralgex
For whatever reason, I read that item as two spare TIRES, and was impressed by the size of your desk drawers.
It's been a long week.....
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